(Image from Psycho by Universal Pictures)According to some medical researchers, there's good reason to think so. Hypothetically, gene therapy could reduce or limit fear and subsequent trauma from terrifying situations. G...

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPvMUpcxPSA] (Video Link)Joe Hanson is a biologist and the host of the PBS online series It’s Okay to Be Smart. In this video, he explains why it’s odd that there so few left-h...

(Image: NASA)Assuming that faster-than-light travel is physically impossible, humanity's options for colonizing other star systems are limited. A multi-generation starship or one in which the settlers are traveling in so...

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Isn't this a plot in many an apocalypse Hollywood movie?
Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the genetic code of a deadly strain of bacteria that killed nearly a qua...

Yeah, we meant you. (Though to be honest, I've long suspected that some people are actually fully Neanderthals from the way they act.)
DNA analysis studies published in Nature and Science showed that humans are pa...

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[http://youtu.be/ki2U8nXTXYU] (YouTube link)Genticists have made a fascinating discovery that points to a genetic mutation responsible for the behavior of certain people you know. They were born that way. Which, of cours...

Ed Yong has a fascinating article on the behavior of a gene called SRY. It is located on the Y chromosome, and is pivotal in making an embryo develop into a male. But what about studies of Swyer syndrome, in which a chil...